A new year demands some new designs and remodelling here on Luckettopia! A quick idea and even quicker sketch lead into me deciding that the current Luckettopians status as the random magical little imps populating this fair island didn’t make “sense”, so what else could I do but make them ROBOTS!!!

These pictures might need a little more explanation than the last ones! First up is fan-art of a meme about Marvel vs Capcom 2 which has just been ported to the X360/PS3 (which I’m waiting 2 weeks to play on PSN due to me not having a permanent Xbox Live Gold sub)

Second is some fanart of the awesome Ashley Wood’s character Bambalad, which I sketched because I have one of his awesome BambaBoss DIY vinyl figures on its way to me soon!

In “other news” I’ve recently moved to Leeds and into a new flat with my girlfriend!

The other rooms have changed, but The Desk at which I spend my days has not! XD

(Just a few new ideas and projects I’ve been working on lately and to let you all know I’m still alive!)

Sackhouette: Forest King’s Request

The gentleman that filmed the level added in the Mischief Makers soundtrack because he cottoned on to my INCREDIBLE INFLUENCES. If you have the beta theres one day left to play stuff, so you can find my level by searching for Sackhouette. I’ll be sure to create more lovely levels for the full thing out later this month..

Where have I been? I would like to simply say “lol stuck in alligator” and then move on, but alas I wasn’t. Unlike this 62 year old scuba diving golf-ball collector But really, after taunting the things for 14 years and not getting a CONSIDERABLY better job, is it any wonder his reptile nemesis finally decided to have a taste?

Previously I was going to update with a long-winded angsty analogy about my creative process being a series of interlinked pipes and taps, but you’ve been spared that horror, loyal luckettopians. Basically I’ve been stuck in a horrible rut of ambivalence over my own personal projects, and not knowing what to do next.

So in true Luckettopia tradition, I decided to personify this period as a great big honkin’ albino alligator lurkin’ in the lakes. This is the second horrid beastie that the island has had to face; the first of course being the dreaded Cintiq-King.

Lets hope I never spend time within its ominous belly ever again.

Should have updated a week ago, but I always feel bad about posting without a visual treat for you loyal Luckettopians! I will have to cook something special up (by cook, I obviously mean…draw) for you all shortly!

Alright luvs! Sorry I’ve been a bit ‘internet quiet’ but I had some troubles which involved “not getting paid” and “getting very cross about it”. But that is almost all over now, so I have to find new things to get angry about for you! Well aren’t you just in luck, because today I discovered that had I entered the Xbox Live Original Pilot Competition, the above comic is the history this world would have recorded if anyone survived my exploding fury!

Right, so basically right, I was going to enter the New York Television Festival Xbox LIVE Originals Contest (warning, page has an annoying looping video demo that you can’t stop, hurrah for irritating web-design decisions!!), because getting Waffle X onto a network and getting paid $100,000 (£50,000) to make a 6 episode series appealed to me. Obviously. So to be honest that was the main driving force behind creating a full pilot version of Waffle X, stitching Episode 1 and 2 together with added linking bits, to submit to this competition. I was psyched, a gaming orientated comedy animation seemed perfectly suited to being shown on Xbox Live. I went through the usual egomania of “I’ve definitely won. Now how to spend that 50k…”. But, as with all things, there was a catch.

I say “a catch”, but rather an entire legal document of catches. Have a read of the PDF Entry Packet here, but I’ll highlight the choice phrases that made me raise a Roger Moore-esque eyebrow to:

- NYTVF and the Designated Entities shall have the perpetual and exclusive right to exhibit, disseminate, or broadcast each entry (and any portion(s) or element(s) thereof) in any manner, media or format now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe.

- Each entrant acknowledges and agrees, that by entering, NYTVF and/or the Designated Entities shall exclusively and perpetually own the copyright in the entry and shall be entitled to exploit any or all entries (or any portions or elements thereof) and that no payment or consideration of any kind or nature shall be due to any such entrant.

So yeah. I didn’t enter. The idea of signing over any and all right to my creation when they’ve underlined legally they want to exploit and not pay me for it, and then bind the whole thing up so tightly in legal bullshit that i can’t even travel lightyears to ANOTHER GALAXY to pitch it to warbling alien execs, is ridiculous. So time passed, and slightly dejected I released Episode 2 anyway still waiting for my big break. Until yesterday when I decided to satisfy my horrible HORRIBLE curiosity and find out who won.

A show called Bouchedags. I’m going to link the whole thing below, but really I have to warn you. Its 17 minutes long, and its essentially a form of torture. See how far you get through, and let me know. Its the most unfunny piece of shit I have ever watched in my entire life.

Even the thumbnail communicates what you’re in for. Unfunny fraternity americans sitting around making awful sketches about “punching retarded girlfriends in the face” and an entire minute of fart jokes. So I became angry about how theoretically angry I would have been, had I entered the contest, signed away all ownership of Waffle X forever throughout the cosmos, and then got beaten by this HORSESHIT anyway. Hence the comic. I would have destroyed this world, and you would have thanked me for it.

Now lets see if I can update this blog more regularly without needing to be monumentally angry!

Finally got around to finishing the stitched together Waffle X Pilot (consisting of Episode 1 and 2 with new ADDED BITS) and put it up onto youtube. Link it across the interwebs far and wide please. Leave no forum unbranded by your whoring might!

Have been a bit under the weather recently with SUMMER ILLS, but hope to be back to my ranty productive self soon enough! Just began a little work on WAFFLE X: EPISODE THREE today *gasp*, so we will see if I can finish that before 2008 comes a knockin’ with its spiky metal fists and stern glare ;____;

Photo from my birthday weekend in Norwich. I dont wine and dine the girlfriend so much as beer and burger her XD Pic was taken by Rachel’s friend, Louise, who makes awesome plushies over yonder.

I am mega-busy at the moment as I started a freelance Flash production job at a games company in London. Which has meant commuting every day and not having much spare time at all! Rarrrgh, trains!

The reception to Waffle X: EPISODE TWO was a bit more muted than I expected, with Deviantart reacting to it a lot more favourably than Newgroundsthis time around! Will have to get the full pilot video version up soon to Myspace and Youtube for COMPLETE ONLINE MEDIA PENETRATION O_____O

Might upload some sketches of random side-projects I’ve had in mind for months but done nothing with, sometime this week. Just so I can point to them online when one day they inevitably get done by someone else and I scream paranoically about microscopic creative spy-drones following everything I output!

Its out, oh god finally its out. So sorry about all the delays, but back and forth on some final dialogue audio and my new freelance project and other excellent important sounding excuses are to blame :P

Get it from a multitude of places:

Newgrounds Click de 5 Vote to make me happies

WaffleX.com Home sweet rarely updated home!

Yeah so I am currently doing some freelance flash work for a games company in london, and that is CRAZY BUSY DEADLINE at the moment, and commuting is horrendous. Then its my birthday on the 6th, and that will hopefully be happy smiley day off of work and fun times and presents and fings ^_____^